Lifelong technologist with roots in research and early open source. Previously @Brave, @Mozilla, @Debian

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Joined February 2007
My project (Purple) beats MemPalace on LongMemEval (+0.4pp NDCG@10). No big tricks .. just a simple, well-tuned system. Still lot of gains to be made in retrieval + ranking!
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What actually mattered: * hybrid retrieval (dense + keyword) * lightweight reranking * simple topic-level boosting No big models, no SFT.. Gains mainly from better candidate selection, not generation.
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Feeling a little unstoppable the past month. 1) The number of entire companies I coded in the past week- replacing stuff I used already and canceling contracts. 2) The apps where it's easier to just make it instead of sign up for something and deal with them 3) The creative process unlock- holy FUCK I feel like I've could rebuild everything I made in the last 20 years in a week or two. The engine is fucking on Current portfolio is ~-elsewhere~- but I have some wild projects.
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Nobody resists the future harder than incumbent technologists.
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Recently talked about where things are going / general audence. I have to post this before it gets too stale! open.spotify.com/episode/27x…
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so cool to receive a welcome email after trying your product 1 time very useful very very helpful thanks
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That moment when a topic goes from intimidating to obvious is a top 3 human experience.
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Restoring this 1984 Macintosh was really fun
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0 to 1 forcing function: build something valuable and accept only crypto payments - if it works, scale it
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*taptap* never work for an engineering manager
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Curious that every insular crypto group appears to develop their own localized cryptic language for common simple concepts. Do we want people to use things? docs.chia.net/guides/crash-c…
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TIL @FrameworkPuter total funding is $45M -- how! They are over there just quietly shipping 👏
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School programs should be encouraging young minds to make use of AI in every lesson and assignment and instead they are going the opposite direction viewing it as a form of cheating. How do we school the schools?
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I will never call it sequel
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guys imagine how fucked we will be when other party wins
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the way that business bros talk on their phone after a coffee
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Shes heavy but workable @Starlink
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Context: IRL video stream bandwidth maxing - 3x5g modems on each of the US carriers + Starlink - self hosted over SRTLA / Belabox / @gstreamer / @OBSProject
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